Chapter 0417

“Get in your places, please,” Nathan called from the bottom of the stage. Bridget hurried to take point beside him. “Are you two ready?”

“Ready,” Nicholas said. He had his script out too.

“Ready,” I echoed. My heart hammered in my chest as I skimmed the first line. This was going to be even worse than I thought.

“Begin!” Nathan called.

I braced myself. Nicholas was set to start off the scene.

His eyes were locked on the script. He didn’t speak right away.

“I said, begin!” Nathan said again.

Nicholas cleared his throat. When he looked up at me, his eyes were hard. “We have to end things between us,” he said.

God, I knew he was acting but the words still speared through me. He was just reading the

script, but my

It was too

I had to.

It was my line but it was also

“There’s someone

“Who?” I read.

doesn’t matter

The sooner this was over,

I

to how the end of our whatever–we–are might

someone else. I almost

I love him for him not to feel it back

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we are to each other right now, nor have we fully admitted the extent of our feelings for one another. It felt… safer that way.

was simply

love you was shattering my

was not shocking then, as

it? We were on stage with the whole of the competition watching, and Nathan. If he gave me a hint of special treatment,

to finish the scene.

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